HISTORY WALKS & EXHIBITIONS
LOCAL HISTORY TALKS & EXHIBITIONS 2023/2024 - ALL WELCOME!
HELEN WEINSTEIN & THE BLUE PLAQUE PROJECT WILL BE TEAMING UP WITH LOCAL RESIDENTS AND COMMUNITY GROUPS FOR A SERIES OF EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS BETWEEN 2023 AND 2025. LOOK DOWN THE PAGES TO FIND SPECIFIC DATES FOR WALKS AND TALKS, ARCHIVE TRIPS AND LOCAL HISTORY EXHIBITIONS
WHO LIVED IN YOUR HOUSE? EVENT ON SUNDAY 29TH OCTOBER. FREE AT MRCC IN CAMBRIDGE. UNCOVERING THE STORY OF OUR LOCAL AREA THROUGH COMMUNITY RESEARCH INTO THE HISTORY OF PETERSFIELD
This is an invitation for Petersfield’s local residents and those connected to the history of Petersfield to join in with HistoryWorks and street community groups at the new Mill Road Community Centre from 2pm to 5pm on Sunday 29th October in order to enjoy lively, illustrated presentations about the local history research projects and discoveries, and gain an insight from CHFHS experts into how to use historical records such as the census and borough records to uncover your own local history!
Talks will be from 2pm to 4pm followed by Q&A, sharing of the blue plaque project, conversations and cakes. All are welcome!
If you wish to book a place via Eventbrite to help GSF estimate catering numbers please do so, but you can also just drop by on the day.
Eventbrite = local-history.eventbrite.co.uk
Location is the new Mill Road Community Centre which is located behind the former Mill Road Library, Ironworks just off Mill Road.
Address = 6 Hazell Street, Cambridge, CB1 2GN
TALKS:
2pm Welcome & Introduction from GSF and the community street groups, including from local historian Helen Weinstein about the community blue plaque project and how you can help by sharing things you’ve found like deeds & documents, old photos and newspaper clippings, outhouse information, ‘found items’ like bottles and buttons.
2.15pm Helen Weinstein, Director of HistoryWorks
AN ILLUSTRATED TALK ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO LIVED AND WORKED IN THE PETERSFIELD AREA KNOWN IN VICTORIAN TIMES AS ‘STURTON TOWN’
Helen’s talk will be richly illustrated showing the lives of the those who worked on the railways and iron foundries, the local bakeries and dairies, orchards and allotments, laundries and boot factories, pubs and breweries, schools and libraries. Helen will show how the Victorian past can be revealed via fascinating photos and newspaper reports, maps and property documents, trade directories and museum artefacts, council committee meeting minutes and locally found objects and papers.
3.15pm David Copsey, Chair of Cambridgeshire & Hunts Family History Society
YOUR HOME, YOUR COMMUNITY, AND ITS FAMILIES
The talk will show how you can find out more about the people who lived in your home; including how you can research their family history going back 200 years showing the sources of information available from 2023 back to the 1800s.
BLUE PLAQUES & RESEARCH DONATED ONLINE
4pm to 5pm Q&A with Cakes and Conversations for members of the community to share items they’ve brought plus for the Blue Plaque Project there will be a small exhibition plus a table where HistoryWorks and community volunteers will be sharing Blue Plaques bespoke for houses on the participating streets because the school children have for a first step for local history exhibitions made hand-made blue plaques for 1891 or 1901 residents, working with HistoryWorks on the census for participating streets , and now the second step ‘posh’ vinyl blue plaques will also be available from HistoryWorks for collection at the event for neighbours to display on their homes on Abbey Walk, Ainsworth Street, Gwydir Street, Hooper Street, Kingston Street, Milford Street, Mill Road, Rivar Place, Sleaford Street, Stone Street, Sturton Street, York Street and York Terrace.
DONATIONS The hire of the hall is over £100 plus the making of the blue plaque exhibitions by local school children costs several hundred pounds per year, so any donations will be warmly received. Orange buckets will be available on tables, and £5,£10,£20 notes can be donated by those who want to show their appreciation for the project and can afford to donate to this neighbourhood activity!!
Note that young people and babies are welcome too! There will be a craft table and toy table to keep children
